Saudi women drivers are showing up on the streets of the kingdom again in a renewed right-to-drive campaign, challenging what may be the last, de-facto ban on female drivers in the world after the government and religious conservatives in Saudi Arabia crushed at least two other such movements.

The revived right-to-drive campaign is scheduled to hit a peak on Oct. 26, when Saudi women taking part say they will take the steering wheel that day to go about their normal errands, and encourage other women who choose to do the same.

Already, ahead of Oct. 26, a handful of Saudi women are beginning to post videos of themselves driving – in the coastal city of Jeddah, in the Eastern Province, in the capital of Riyadh, even in the Qassim city of Bureidah, considered the kingdom’s most religiously conservative city. Read More »